We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … accelerated. We find that human capital positively affects output per worker and productivity growth. In particular, in terms of … robust to model specifications and estimation methods. The spillover effect appears to be much stronger before 1994. We …

change has influenced productivity growth in China, at least in the decade of the 1990s, but perhaps less so or not at all … in China. Our empirical approach implements concepts developed in Acemoglu (2010) and complements the approaches …